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Reconciling Observational Challenges to the Impulsive-Piston Shock-Excitation Scenario. I. Kinematic Challenges

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Until now, there is no consensus on the origin of coronal shock waves. Questions also remain about the patterns that govern the propagation of the presumably related disturbances observed in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV waves). We present arguments in favor of the initial excitation of the waves by the impulsive acceleration of erupting structures. We consider two puzzling events that have been known thanks to the efforts of different research teams. Using recent findings and our methods, we aim to determine what might actually have happened in these challenging events. In the first event, the expansion of the coronal mass ejection (CME) was determined by gravity starting from the low corona. The previous analysis led the authors to conclude about the flare-related origin of the associated shock wave. We also consider another event, in which an EUV wave had a strange kinematics. This was one of the weakest flares accompanied by EUV waves. Both of these challenging events have been reconciled in terms of an impulsively excited piston shock.

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The datasets analyzed during the current study were derived from the following public-domain resources:

Virtual Solar Observatory https://sdac.virtualsolar.org/

CDAW Data Center https://cdaw.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Space Weather Prediction Center https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/

SOHO LASCO CME Catalog https://cdaw.gsfc.nasa.gov/CME_list/

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Acknowledgments

We thank M. Temmer and J. Magdalenić for useful discussions and all authors of previously published articles that studied the events in question. We are grateful to the anonymous reviewer for useful remarks.

We thank the NASA’s STEREO/SECCHI science and instrument teams, the science and instrument teams of EIT and LASCO on SOHO, the US AF RSTN network, and the GOES satellites for the data used here. We are grateful to the team maintaining the CME catalogs at the CDAW Data Center by NASA and the Catholic University of America in cooperation with the Naval Research Laboratory. SOHO is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.

The analysis and consideration of the 8 December 2007 event, the measurements of fast MHD waves, and discussion of the results was funded by the Russian Science Foundation under grant No. 21-72-00039 (V. Kiselev: Sections 4 and 5). The generalization of basic concepts and methods and the analysis of the 24 December 1996 event were financially supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (V. Grechnev, A. Uralov: Sections 2 and 3).

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Grechnev, V.V., Kiselev, V.I. & Uralov, A.M. Reconciling Observational Challenges to the Impulsive-Piston Shock-Excitation Scenario. I. Kinematic Challenges. Sol Phys 297, 106 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-022-02041-1

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